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Beyond Tuition, Costs Of Teacher Preparation: Descriptive Analytics From The Aspiring Teachers' Financial Burden Survey, Francheska Santos, Divya Mansukhani, Susann Skjoldhorne, Neal Finkelstein May 2021

Beyond Tuition, Costs Of Teacher Preparation: Descriptive Analytics From The Aspiring Teachers' Financial Burden Survey, Francheska Santos, Divya Mansukhani, Susann Skjoldhorne, Neal Finkelstein

Prepared to Teach

This report shares analyses from the national survey of aspiring teachers carried out by Prepared To Teach during the 2019-2020 school year. Beyond Tuition, Costs of Teacher Preparation dives into the income sources, expenses, debt, and work realities of aspiring teachers across the country and identifies where candidates are in need of additional support.


A Comparison Of College Affordability Indexes Among City, Suburban, Town, And Rural Public Community Colleges, Lee Walter, Louis Glover, Madeline Justice Apr 2010

A Comparison Of College Affordability Indexes Among City, Suburban, Town, And Rural Public Community Colleges, Lee Walter, Louis Glover, Madeline Justice

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal

During the past 50 years, community colleges have increased in number and evolved to meet the changing needs of an increasingly diverse student population. No other segment of postsecondary education has been more responsive to the needs of its community (Kasper, 2002). Community colleges grant associate’s degrees normally requiring 2 years of full-time study for completion. Enrollment at public 4-year colleges and universities nearly doubled from 1965 to 1999, while enrollments at public community colleges have increased approximately 5-fold (Kasper).


Disparities In Tuition: A Study Of Tuitions Assessed By Hispanic Serving Community Colleges Versus Non-Hispanic Serving Community Colleges In Texas, Lee Waller, Louis Glover, Lynn Simpson Oct 2009

Disparities In Tuition: A Study Of Tuitions Assessed By Hispanic Serving Community Colleges Versus Non-Hispanic Serving Community Colleges In Texas, Lee Waller, Louis Glover, Lynn Simpson

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal

With the shift of higher education funding from federal and state to the local level, community colleges’ choices to off set this funding deficit become few and difficult. One regrettable choice that is frequently made is to increase tuition. This choice has largest finical impact on students of lower income with many of these students coming from minority backgrounds.


Instructional Costs And Tuition Revenues, David Yamoah Oct 2007

Instructional Costs And Tuition Revenues, David Yamoah

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal

A variety of tax reform initiatives have impacted on the ability of New Jersey and some states in the United States to fund public higher education. Public Higher Education faces competition for limited state resources from a variety of state mandatory spending measures including health, criminal justice and elementary and secondary education. In addition, concern about the cost of higher education has resulted in demand for accountability in the use of public funds, which has lead to the need to establish relationship between funding and cost of providing higher education.